Privacy

Who we are

FreeWillWave ("the Wave") is operated by MyNewMe LLC, a limited liability company registered in the United States — 412 W 7th Street, Suite 214, Clovis 88101, New Mexico, USA. This policy explains what personal data we collect when you use freewillwave.com, why, and the choices you have. It forms an integral part of our Terms.

What we collect

We collect the minimum needed to run the Wave:
• your email address — your sign-in identity, never shown publicly;
• the country and primary language on your profile — the country starts from a suggestion, see below;
• the public profile fields you fill in (display name, bio, links) and your interface language;
• the messages you send on the Wave — energies, direct messages and feedback — see below;
• your notification preferences;
• which member is at the origin of your arrival, so the Wave's relay stays consistent;
• a record of any voluntary contributions you make;
• if you ask for a birth portrait, what it asks for — we do not keep it, see below.

Your country and your IP address

When you arrive, we suggest a country from the one your connection appears to come from — so the field is already filled in and you rarely have to touch it. It is only ever a suggestion: you can change it when you sign up, and at any time afterwards in your settings. If you sign in with Google or Facebook, we cannot ask you, so the suggestion is kept as-is until you change it.

That is the whole of it. We do not store your IP address for this and we run no geolocation service on you. Your country counts towards the public per-country totals, and it does one other thing: it lets us speak to you in your currency. Next to a price in dollars, we show roughly what it comes to where you are ("$20 ≈ €18") — the price paid stays the one in dollars — and a payment form arrives pre-filled with your country and its currency, which you can change. If you are not signed in, this country is guessed from your connection, like the suggestion at sign-up.

Cookies

We use only essential cookies: your session (authentication), your language preference, your display theme, and — after a member's invitation link has been opened — an invitation cookie kept for up to 30 days so that a sign-up is credited to the member who invited you. We use no third-party tracking cookies and no advertising cookies.

Invitation links

When you open an invitation link, the visit is recorded only in a hashed form that cannot identify you — we keep no readable address and build no browsing profile. If you then join, the invitation cookie tells us which member's link brought you: that member is credited, and your profile takes its place in the referral chain.

Messages between members

Energies, direct messages and feedback are stored so they can be delivered, and are visible to the people they are addressed to — feedback is read by us. We do not scan your messages for advertising and we never sell them. Moderation happens only when a message is reported or clearly breaks the rules set out in our Terms.

The help assistant

When you use the site's help assistant, your question and the conversation around it are sent to DeepSeek, the super intelligence provider (S.I., what used to be called artificial intelligence) that generates the answer — only when you use the assistant, and nothing more. Please do not put personal details into your questions; they are not needed for an answer.

FreeWill SI Coach

When you talk to FreeWill SI Coach, your messages and the conversation around them are sent to DeepSeek, the S.I. provider that writes the answers — only when you use it, and nothing more. Nobody at FreeWillWave reads these exchanges: there is no log an operator can read, and the S.I. has no way to tell anyone anything. The thread of a session is erased seven days after it closes; what remains is the session notebook and your summary, visible to you alone on your page, and deleted with your account.

If points were given to you, whoever gave them — a person or a brand — receives only overall figures: how many humans took their gifts and, only from five upward, how many opened the coach, how many sessions, and the average of what the control S.I. reads in those sessions. Never a sentence, never a name.

The birth portrait

To compose a birth portrait, you give a first name, a date, a time of birth if you know it, and a place. This information goes to our portrait engine, another service of MyNewMe LLC, the company that runs FreeWillWave: it computes the sky of that birth and writes its reading with DeepSeek, to which it passes the computed sky. The engine keeps your information, the sky and the reading for as long as the booklet can be downloaded: seven days after it is composed. By the next day at the latest, its daily purge erases everything.

When you type the place, what you type goes through our server to Open-Meteo (Switzerland), which suggests the matching towns: Open-Meteo receives what you type, never your IP address.

FreeWillWave, for its part, keeps none of this birth information. The link keeps its code, its state, its language and, if you were signed in when you opened it, your account. During the seven days of the download, it also keeps what is needed to lay out the booklet: the elements of the sky as codes, the last chapter and, if you read in a language other than French or English, the translation of the reading. All of that is erased as soon as the seven days end, by the next day at the latest. That last chapter, the translation and the choice of images are done by DeepSeek: we send it only the text of the reading, never the birth information you gave. The booklet is laid out at the moment you download it, and we keep no copy of it.

A bought link is sent to you by email (Resend) at the address given at payment; that address stays with the record of the purchase, like other payment data. A link given on a podium waits for you in your space, without an email. No account is needed to open a link: it belongs to whoever holds it.

If you give your opinion — a rating and, if you wish, a comment — it is kept with the language of the page and the way the link was obtained (bought or given). For thirty days after the end of the download, you can correct it. After that, we detach it: it keeps nothing that links it to the link, your account or your address, and its date is rounded to the month. Its only use is then to know whether the portraits are good. Write nothing in the comment that you would not want kept.

Emails and notifications

We send transactional email through Resend: sign-in codes, receipts, and the notifications you have enabled — including the weekly letter. You choose what you receive in your notification settings, and every non-essential email can be turned off there.

Payments

Payments are processed by Stripe. Once Stripe Managed Payments is enabled, Stripe acts as the merchant of record for purchases. We never receive or store your card details.

Service providers

We rely on a small set of processors, each processing only the data needed to provide its service:
• Supabase (United States) — database, authentication and storage;
• Vercel (United States) — website hosting;
• Stripe (United States) — payment processing;
• Resend (United States) — transactional email;
• Cloudflare (United States) — receives the emails sent to our addresses, and runs FreeWill SI Coach's control S.I., only when you use it;
• Umami (self-hosted) — cookieless, anonymous visit counting;
• DeepSeek (China) — generates the answers of the help assistant and of FreeWill SI Coach, and writes the reading and the last chapter of a birth portrait, only when you use them;
• Open-Meteo (Switzerland) — suggests towns when you type a place of birth;
• OpenAI (United States) — listens, thinks and speaks in FreeWill SI Coach's live voice conversation, only when you open it.
Each provider is contractually required to protect your data and to use it only to provide its service to us.

Measurement and advertising

We count visits with Umami, a privacy-first tool we host ourselves. It is cookieless: it sets no cookies, stores no IP address, and collects no personal data and no cross-site identifier. Nothing is left on your device.

When we advertise, an ad platform's measurement tag can be loaded here so the platform can learn which visits led to a sign-up — without that feedback it cannot tell who is interested, and shows the ad at random. No such tag is loaded today. The X (Twitter) and Reddit pixels have been removed: nothing on this site sets an advertising cookie or sends anything to an ad platform. If that ever changes, this page will say so.

Should such a tag ever return, what it would send is the bare signal that a sign-up happened — never your email, your name, or your Free Human number. A tracker blocker prevents a tag like that from loading, and the Wave works exactly the same without it.

Public versus private

Your public presence in the Wave — display name, Free Human number, declared country, primary language, badges and activity counts — is public by design, together with the aggregate counts per country and per language. Your email address, your messages and your sign-in activity are never public.

How we protect your data

Data travels encrypted (HTTPS/TLS). Access to the database is restricted row by row (Row Level Security), writes are validated, and we run regular security audits of the code and infrastructure. Payment card details never touch our servers.

Retention, deletion and your rights

While your Free Human account is active, we keep your data for as long as the account exists. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time by writing to us (see below).

What happens when you delete your account

When you delete your account:
• your sign-in account and the active link between your login and your profile are deleted;
• your direct contact and presentation information (display name, bio, links, declared country, email, notifications and preferences) is erased or neutralised;
• your permanent Free Human number remains;
• the minimum structural position needed to preserve the Wave — your place in the referral chain — may remain in pseudonymised form;
• this retained node is no longer used to contact you or to publicly identify you;
• structural and historical aggregate results may remain;
• financial and accounting records may remain where the law requires it;
• creating a new account later does not automatically reclaim your previous Free Human number or node;
• ordinary deletion is irreversible.

This retained structural node is pseudonymised personal data, not anonymous data: it no longer carries your name or contact details, but it remains tied to a permanent identifier. Only aggregate statistics that cannot reasonably identify a person are described as anonymous.

Why we keep the structural node

We retain the pseudonymised structural node on the basis of our legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)): to preserve the integrity and historical accuracy of the Wave, to keep the referral chain consistent, to keep Free Human numbers consistent, to prevent manipulation or duplicated identities, and to preserve aggregate results already generated. We do not rely on consent as the principal basis for this permanent structural retention. Financial and accounting records are kept to comply with our legal obligations (GDPR Article 6(1)(c)).

How long we keep things

• your sign-in account and the active login–profile link: deleted when deletion completes;
• your direct profile, presentation and contact information: erased or neutralised during deletion;
• ordinary notification data and preferences: deleted;
• restricted security and deletion-audit records: kept for a limited, documented security period;
• payment and accounting records: kept for the period required by applicable law;
• the pseudonymised structural node: kept while FreeWillWave actively operates and the structural purpose remains necessary.
We review whether the structural node is still necessary at least once a year. When the project ends or the purpose disappears, this data is deleted, aggregated or further anonymised.

Where your data lives

Our servers and most of our service providers are located in the United States, so your information is processed there — a country whose data-protection laws differ from those of your country of residence. We take steps to keep your information protected wherever it is processed, including contractual safeguards with our providers. Questions asked to the help assistant and to FreeWill SI Coach, and the reading of a birth portrait, are processed by DeepSeek (China) only when you use them; the place of birth you type goes through Open-Meteo (Switzerland).

GDPR

For members in the European Union we apply the General Data Protection Regulation: we process data on the lawful bases of contract performance (running your account and the game), legitimate interests (security, and the structural node described above) and legal obligation (financial records); we collect only what is necessary and use it only for the purposes stated here.

Your rights

You may ask us to: access your data; correct it; delete it; restrict its processing; object to processing based on our legitimate interests (including the continued retention of your pseudonymised structural node); and receive a copy in a portable form where applicable. You may also ask us to review whether keeping your pseudonymised structural node is still necessary. You may lodge a complaint with your competent data-protection supervisory authority at any time.

Children

FreeWillWave is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child under 16 has given us personal data, write to us and we will delete it.

Changes

We may update this policy as the Wave evolves. Material changes will be reflected here with a new "last updated" date.

Governing language

This document is provided in English. Where FreeWillWave offers a translation for convenience, the English version is authoritative and prevails in case of any discrepancy.

Translations are provided for information only and have no contractual value; only the English version is binding.